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New Media Center_kuda.org is an independent cultural organization which since 2001 brings together artists, theoreticians, media activists, researchers and the wider public in the research of contemporary art theory and practice, cultural policies, activism and politics. kuda.org tends to make an intervention in the sphere of research and artistic and social experimentation within the field of art and cultural production, from the position of institutional critique and critique of cultural policies. Facing processes of cultural industries and culturalization of politics and art, the collective attempts to map and encourage acts of critique and resistance to comodification of results of art production including attempts of transformation and critique of relations of production which are in the field of art production and outer-art social processes being reproduced through shifts of ideological and „political“ matrixes, which are in the last instance consequence of recuperation of people.

kuda.org creates platform for an open dialogue, experimental education, collaboration and research, and open access to different knowledge resources. Within kuda.org, there have been organized several hundreds public events: lectures and presentations of visiting artists and theorists, workshops, exhibitions, conferences and international publishing project. Over the years, kuda.org has established wide network of collaborating cultural institutions and individuals, locally, in Serbia, in the region and internationally. In 2007, kuda.org co-established Youth Center CK13 (www.ck13.org), one of the rare autonomous spaces dedicated to activism, self-organization and independent cultural production. Since 2012, kuda.org is closely collaborating with Group for Conceptual Politics – GKP (www.konceptualnapolitika.blogspot.rs) from Novi Sad on mutual projects, theoretical researches, publishing and politics of housing (within the project „Local politics and Urban self-management“, www.detelinara.org).

new productivisms, transversal web journal

This transversal issue reviews the historical experience of the Russian-Soviet avant-garde art produced during the 1910s and 1930s, with regard to two of the main tracks followed by its simultaneously political and artistic radicalization: productivism and factography. Our point of view is neither historicist nor nostalgic. Rather than the classical academic differentiation between historiographic, artistic and critical discourse, a three-fold approach undertakes to articulate a genealogy, to apply a critical reading, and to trace its becoming actual in contemporary practices.

contentsDoug Ashford: Group Material: Abstraction as the Onset of the RealMarcelo Expósito: The New ProductivismsDevin Fore: «Arbeit sans phrase»Brian Holmes: Into Information! Reversing History for the PresentChristina Kiaer: “Into Production!”: The Socialist Objects of Russian ConstructivismGerald Raunig: Changing the Production Apparatus. Anti-Universalist Concepts of Intelligentsia in the early Soviet UnionHito Steyerl: Truth Unmade. Productivism and FactographyDmitry Vilensky: Activist Club or On the Concept of Cultural Houses, Social Centers & MuseumsJaime Vindel: Tretyakov in Argentina. Factography and Operativity in the Artistic Avant-Garde and the Political Vanguard of the Sixties

In co-operation with the Museu d'Art Contemporany de Barcelona (MACBA) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).